Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 17 August 2026 at 18:38 Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 17 August 2026 at 17:16 Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South TechCrunch By: Dominic-Madori Davis 17 August 2026 at 17:06 African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.